With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on ...

The curious minds at What If question whether Earth could survive if Jupiter suddenly lost its massive atmosphere.

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, hides a past very different from its current appearance. A recent study ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the largest planet orbiting the sun, used to be much bigger and stronger when the solar system was just beginning to take shape ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

One of Jupiter’s most recognizable attributes is ... after the solar system formed its first solids. At that time, the sun was surrounded by a disk of material known as a protoplanetary nebula ...

Jupiter is not only the largest in the solar ... from the only extreme feature that defines the fifth planet from the sun. The world is home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph ...